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Flash Rip

By: Keira Andrews
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
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This closeted ex-football star just met his match. Liam Fox was the next Aussie footy star before his dream shattered along with his knee. More than a decade later, he's a lifeguard wishing fans would stop recognizing him so he can fade into the background where he’s safe.

Liam's alone with his secrets. He's never told his conservative family or a single friend he's gay. After being shamed for his need to surrender years ago by the first and only man he trusted, he's terrified to act on his desires.

Enter a trainee half his size with the biggest heart.


Cody Grant loves a challenge. Though he's young, he's out and proud and fearless. He's still learning to rescue swimmers from dangerous rip currents, but he knows he can take charge and give Liam the release, affection, and acceptance he desperately craves.

Can Cody convince Liam to find the courage to love and live out loud?

Flash Rip by Keira Andrews is a steamy gay romance and series starter for the Lifeguards of Barking Beach—where the rescue team on Australia's hottest beach save lives and risk their hearts. This hurt/comfort romance features a slow burn, an age gap, first times, and a happy ending.


Contains mature themes.

©2019 Keira Andrews Contemporary Romance Heartfelt Dream
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I’ve had a few Keira Andrews books sitting in my Audible app for a while and am glad I finally queued this one up, it was a great intro to her writing. At times a little too ocker, but overall, the book does a pretty good job of portraying surf life saving and a day on the beach in Australia.

I loved Cody and Liam (and many of the other characters) and I think Liam’s inner homophobia and self growth was depicted with authenticity and Cody’s strength shone through. I enjoyed their journey and they were hot 🔥

Joel Leslie is probably my favourite MM narrator, he’s versatile and brings characters and scenes (especially funny ones), to life with such vibrancy and humour and as I have said in other reviews, his Aussie accent is quality. The only thing that he doesn’t do well is younger female voices, the characters always sound 50-60+ and on this occasion there were some errors in pronunciation but that won’t ever stop me from getting my regular Joel fix !!

Getting “OUT” of the Rip

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Performance was perfect. But what got me was the accuracy of the situation in AFL in Australia. In 2024 there has still yet to be an openly gay player. Liam's pain could be felt. The heartache of feeling like he had to hide such a huge side of who he is. I loved how Keira showed what is likely the reality of what would happen. Some criticism (the "old-school" typical Aussie bloke) but mostly acceptance. I wish the age gap would have been explored more, but I understand the topic may fight with the other major plot point. I would however have been more than happy to have a scene where Liam wears his footy gear for Cody :)

Excellent and accurate

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Barkers Beach, on the coast of Perth, Western Australia, is a patrolled by a keen group of lifesavers and Canadian trainee Cody Grant is enjoying learning the ropes and spending time with hunky senior lifeguard Liam Fox. While Cody is out and proud, Liam has never come out to anyone and never intends to. As Cody and Liam grow closer, it’s not only the rips which are dangerous. I loved the novelty of a m/m age-gap romance between two lifesavers but more than that, Keira Andrews recreates episodes of Bondi Rescue as we watch the lifesavers deal with a variety of gripping rescues and uncooperative beach goers. The romance is also hot and steamy: publicly the experienced Liam teaches Cody about lifesaving while privately the younger dominant Cody shares his experience of gay sex with the older submissive Liam. There’s a lot of homophobia in Liam’s past and some excellent messaging about rejecting toxic masculinity. It will be clear to any Australian that audio narrator superstar Joel Leslie is not Australian, but he provides pretty credible Aussie accents most of the time and it’s never a chore to listen to him (currently free on the Audible Plus catalogue).

Aussie lifesaver romance!

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Generally a great, happy story. Just a few pronunciation issues and the wrong uses of terms and phrases but overall fine. Different states in Australia have different accents and use different words to describe similar things, but nothing was too wrong to be a turn off.

Fun story

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Good job with the Aussie accent and "down under-isms" would love to see Liam and Cody make another appearance.

Great story, this one's on repeat!

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